U.S.A. to deport 400 Immigrants to Cabo Verde

Cabo Verde has struggled in recent years with the handling of deportees being sent back to the island country. Since the early 90’s, over 1300 Cape Verdeans have been deported, majority of which came from the United States, followed by Portugal and France. Most are deported from committed crimes such as theft, lack of documents, and drugs. Most of the deportees are young males, and when they arrive in Cabo Verde, there are no programs of any sort to transition them back into society. They face heavy discrimination in gaining employment. Many return speaking mostly English, if any creolo at all. And also, many of them have no family to return to and are displaced. Most of the youths turn to drugs upon returning to Cabo Verde which has been an increasing pandemic especially in the capital city of Praia. This has undoubtedly been a growing concern for citizens in Cabo Verde.

One of the main causes of the mass deportation is the hardening of immigration laws in the United States, which has foreseen deportation even for minor crimes. Cape Verdean Ambassador to the United States, Carlos Veiga, confirmed on Rádio Voz di América, of the steps being taking for mass deportation and that measures that are being put in place to ensure a better transition of deportees back into the homeland.

This news broke on the heels of the US President’s plan to remove all the obstacles the immigration agencies faced in the past to target undocumented immigrants crossing the border and living in the the United States. President Donald trump signed two executive orders on Wednesday, January 24th, to ramp up plans for deportation of potentially millions. However, Cabo Verde has been anticipating the arrival of these 400 individuals facing deportation since the summer of 2016.

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Nadine Dias
on January 31, 2017 at 1:23 pm

If these are the generation today that are killing other Cape Verdeans then “good riddance”. You have given our people a bad name. We are good, hard working, family oriented people and it’s sad to see how you have ruined our names. Glad to see you go….ow learn a lesson and become what a true Cape Verdean is about.

I agree w you Nadine but, Jocellna is right. There are only 1000 police officers to cover all 10 islands. The crime rate has gone up tremendously over the last few years. Drugs and weapons are on the rise now and unfortunately, these officers don’t all have the proper training to deal w it.
Hopefully they can implement programs to help the deportees adjust and actually be productive otherwise, I fear the crime rate will go up even more and the people on the island will suffer.

I think is better too calculate what type of crime is commited before you send Someone too a land that he doesn’t know!

Then start the program in the Usa and look if the person is doing good and can come Back too society. If not or he fucks it up again? Then send him back too cv in another program that THE USA finance in Cape verde!

Because CV is not responsible for THE poison in the people of the USA!

Its very funny that the opressors (White US supremacy) cant be deported but are THE real illegal immigrants over there.

I live in europe and over here is much better and we see real democracy and intelligent people of Every race. USA is really a reality show!

Disturbing News. So why aren’t the master mind criminals getting deported, in a simple term, those who really are committing the real crimes?? Cape Verdeans are followers of the real criminal minds, here in US. Cape Verde, is a country, which records one of the lowest crime rates worldwide, and a lot of those calculated crimes, to be very clear, were not committed by the people who were born and raised there. This massive deportation will do nothing in reducing this multiplying criminals and crimes in US. This issue has been out of control because the root causes are been overlooked, and the US government is in denial and to justify, they will target immigrants or shall I say immigrants, ultimately, aren’t everyone with hands behind this senseless and meaningless action, immigrants themselves??? Furthermore, what about their cold crimes against the less privileged ones? Period.

Many different aspects were brought into this discussion.
This is a problem of no easy solution, and being an immigrant myself I understand the challenges of starting a new life in a different country. I am not particularly a supporter of hard immigration laws, nor other questionable policies of this administration (like building a wall, for example).
But:
a) having worked very hard in this country, and continuing to do so;
b) knowing the many community resources available in U.S. (specially when compared to the very limited community resources available in my country of origin, and I believe that applies to Cape Verde as well);
then, I find very difficult to accept that people come here and turn to crime in any shape or form. Or, even worse, youngsters that are having the gift of growing in a country with more opportunities, turn to crime.
I have children growing here, and one thing I ALWAYS point out to them is that the conditions that they have here are way more favorable than the ones they would have had in our country of origin;
and I also am very strict to ensure that they don’t get into a wrong path.
I considere myself privileged for having a relatively stable financial and moral situation when I was brought up by my parents, who were educated people, but I was fortunate enough to work as a teacher in my country of origin in a very needy community for a long time.
What I saw there was that regardless of education, regardless of financial struggles, the parents that were committed to their children welfare, were successful in keeping their children out of trouble, and In a good path.

I’m still trying to find these so called “Transition Programs” that are meant to help us (Deportees) get settled in a country we know very little about. I know Cabo Verde settled for a very large amount of funds for accepting us and gets paid for individual deportation, but we have nothing here to help us financially, educationally, or mentally. We are not giving support in any type of way. If it wasn’t because I’m fortunate enough to come from a stable family and was awaking by a new understanding, I would be lost, with no hope, in a country that can not come close to a society that I know… and yes, I was deported for 1 criminal charge, that I had been convicted of, 10yrs prior to my deportation. I was brought to the USA at the age of 2yrs old, raised in an American neighborhood, mislead and influenced by the ghetto cultures image. Luckily, I met the right people that educated me about systemic stigma I was up against that helped change my way of thinking. But, my transformation did nothing to help stop this deportation process! #CaboVerdeBorn #AmericanRaised #ProductOfMyEnviroment #TheFewEnlightened

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